The Washington critic., 1887-02-28
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Prince Alexander is recovering.

frince Alexander is recovering.
An exhibition Of orchids will begin at
New York Tuesday.
Fire at Wellington, New Zealand, has
osn.'d loss Of f150000.
The Bonapartlst Leandri is at the head OF
an insurrectlon In Corsica.
The six days walking match in Phlla lei
phia was won by Robert Vint.
All the passenger railways OF Phlladel-
phia will reduce fares to five-cent basis.
Justin Mccarthy lectured in Boston last
night upon "Ireland In the Coming Crisis"
District Assembly 40 will inaugurate q
vigorous boycott against the Third Avenue
Railroad.
Mrs. Cart and her two children were frozen
TO death at Holbrook, Ariz., during the
blizzard recently.
The committee investigating the Brooklyn
City Government will begin taking testi-
mony next Friday.
The Right Rev. A. NJ. A. Blanchet, Roman
Catholic Bishop at Vancouver, W. T., died
Friday, aged 90 years.
Tho Ninth Regiment Of New York is rails.
ing q fund for tho erection Of q monument
on the battlefield Of Gettysburg.
Slight earthqake shocks were experienced
yesterday in Italy; the search for the victims
Of last Wednesdays shocks continues.
Henry Mayer, a letter-carrier employed at
the New York postofllce, station l., was ar
rested Saturday, charged with stealing let
ters from the malls.
Three business blocks, including the Re.
publican and Observer Office, at Rlth'and
Centre, Wis.,, were burned yesterday. L,,s
$4,000; insurance $4,000.
Mrs. DIR. William Fithian mother OF GEN
eral John G. Black, pension commissioner,
and Captain William P. Black, OF Chicago,
died ut Danville, ILL.,, Saturday.
The trouble at the Mngo Junction (Ohio)
Iron and Steel Works has been settled by
the company recognizing the Amalgamated
Association Of Ir0u and Steel Workers.
The Chicago Daily Newspaper Associa-
tlon have agreed to pay compositors 40
cents per l,CO0 ''ems' on morning news
papers and Al cents on evening papers.
James Shepherd, formerly superintendent
Of police at Buffalo, N. Y, and since then
a member Of the detective force, was killed
Saturday hight by the blowing down Of
building.
Hugh Thomas, a Philadelphia boy, was
shot and slightly wounded In that city yes
terday by Emanuel Kellum, one Of party
Of colored boys with whom Thomas had a
difficulty
At Pougbkeepsie, N. Y, Judge Barnard
on Saturday refused to grant further stay
OF proceedings in the case OF ex-Alder-
man O'Neil, the convicted New York
"booder."
Judge NJ. NJ. Cohen, the Oldest member
Of the New Orleans bar, died In that city
Thursday, aged 49, He was native Of
Charleston, :. e., but had resided in New
Orleans since 1887.
caught fire at her anchorage of quarantine,
New York, Friday night. She had to be
beached and filled with water to save her.
Loss about $l50,000.
Wykoff Brown or Holman, farm hand
employed by John d. Ashwell In Somerset
County, N. j., Saturday night, shot twice
Ella La Priest, q domestic, who refused to
marry him. Miss La Priest is still alive.
A difference of opinion has arisen be.
tween Governor Church Of Dakota and the
Republican members Of the Council, which
may result In hanging up the confirmation
OF some Of his appointments even longer
than bis own was delayed.
A FIRE Saturday night on the second floor
Brooklyn, occupied by the Ridgewood
Candy Manufacturing Company, spread to
the other floors, and before the flames were
extinguished $50, 900 damage was done; Ia.
sured.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Hartford, Conn, Saturday, Judge Shipman
handed down decision denying the mo.
tion Of Merritt Ga1ly Of New York for O
temporary injunction restraining the Colts
| Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company
from manufacturing and selling the Univer-
sal printing press.
Sam Osborne, ticket agent for several
steamship companies and for the Erie aud
Vanderbilt roads at Toronto, Ont, has dis.
| appeared, leaving debts amounting, 1t is said,
to $4,000. II is said he has vlctimized the
companies he represented for considerable
sum, and several fiiends suffer through hay
ing Endorsed his notes.
John A. Boiler, nn extensive cigar manu-
faciurcr at Mohunsville, near Reading, Pa,
has made an assignment. Liabilities over
$1,000. The large cigar factory Of william
Reigner, at Boyertown, Pa, was closed
Saturday by the sheriff on an execution
amounting to S.l,2 ,0O0. These two factories
employed several hundred hands.
City Attorney George c. Randolph o.
Butte, Mont, was found dead In his room
from an overdose Of morphine Saturday
night Randolph graduated In New York
where he practic.d ten yeaIs AT one tim,
he ranked as one Of the foremost mem
bers Of the bar Of Montana. Later h,
has been despondent and dissipated. II,
was member Of the great Randolph
family.
About year ago an attempt was made Il
organize acorp0ratinn In Minneapolis, to b,
known ns the Mortgage Trust Loan aut
Debenture Company, hut the enterprls
failed Recently Unauthorized persons hav
flooded the United States with circular
Offering wonderful Inducements to all per
| sone Wishinp In fnvast in stOrk Thps